RAMONDA Thomas

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thomas.ramonda@gmail.com

Thomas Ramonda has a doctorate in contemporary history and is a former graduate of Sciences Po Aix. His interests lie in the history of medical knowledge and the anthropology of armed conflict. In his dissertation, completed at the Mesopolhis laboratory under the supervision of Walter Bruyère-Ostells, he explored the issues surrounding the medical treatment of Napoleonic soldiers wounded in the Iberian Peninsula between 1808 and 1814. His work examines the way in which insurrectionary armed conflicts affected the health of combatants, linking different levels of analysis: from individual experiences of war, injury and care, to the circulation of medical knowledge and the administration of the Napoleonic system. At the same time, it examines the way in which the production of medical knowledge in the context of insurrection also proved to be a tool of domination for an empire. He also uses mapping tools and quantitative data analysis to explore the contexts of military occupation and insurrection. In addition to his research work, Thomas has also taught at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, where he has led courses on French and European history. He has also published articles in peer-reviewed journals and participated in several international conferences.

Functions

2018-2021: Lecturer, IEP Aix-en-Provence

History of France from 1870 to the present day, 1era IEP year (64h)

History of Europe from 1492 to the present day, 1era year of IEP (64h).

Areas of research

Anthropology of the military, military bodies, masculinities and representations of virility

History of war: military practices and knowledge

History of medicine and military medicine

Resistance to the occupying forces: sabotage, corruption, guerrilla warfare, sub-political networks

Mapping and analysis of quantitative data

Productions

Publications 

  • "Taking veterans as witnesses. Public opinion and Spanish war veterans", in Ryan Brown and Maximilien Novak (eds.), Power on Trial - Public opinion and political legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the First Empire, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2024, p.169-195.
  • "Masculinités certifiées ou brisées : L'expertise médicale des blessures de guerre comme révélateur des luttes entre masculinités au cours de l'empire napoléonien", History, Medicine, HealthNo. 25 "Gender, health and masculinities", July 2024. https://journals.openedition.org/hms/8242 
  • "Méfiance, craintes et suspicion au temps de la guérilla. Trust and betrayal in Franco-Spanish relations during Napoleon's occupation of Spain (1808-1814)", Napoleonica. The Reviewvol. 46, no. 2, 2023, p. 123-137.
  • "Medicine and the battlefield. La médecine d'urgence sous le Premier Empire français", in Oury Goldman and Geoffrey Phelippot (eds.), The war of knowledge. Doing science in situations of conflict in Europe and its colonies (16th-19th centuries)Presses des Mines, Paris, 2023.
  • "Les évacuations sanitaires militaires en tant qu'enjeu de santé publique générale: étude des épidémies de typhus du Sud-Ouest de la France sous le Premier Empire (1808-1814)", Revue Historique des Armées2021/2 (no. 303), pp. 38-50. https://www.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2021-2-page-38.htm
  • "Mediterranean mythology, dialogue and exchanges between the occupied and the occupied: the perception of the Mediterranean aspect of Spain by Napoleonic officers during the Guerra de la Independencia", Mediterranean History ReviewVol. 02, N: 02, December 2020, p.112-123. https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/article/141180

Event organisation

  • "Local Event Coordinator for the Fairville project "Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities" (Urban Co-Production Research Project Horizon Europe), organisation of the Mid-term meeting in Marseille on 26, 27, 28 June 2024. https://www.fairville-eu.org/post/fairville-mid-term-meeting-27-29-june-2024#:~:text=Les%20prochaines%20rencontres%20internationales%20du,’Europe%20et%20d’Afrique. 
  • Co-organiser of the international conferenceThinking, defining and classifying revolts: the production and circulation of knowledge about suppressed revolts in the 19th century"With Agathe Meridjen, 2 and 3 May 2024 in Aix-en-Provence, and 20 and 21 June in Paris-Nanterre. https://histoire19.hypotheses.org/15385
  • Co-organiser of theDoctoriales 2023"with Pauline Cherbonnier, Victor Natalizio, Andrea Galinnal, Mésopolhis Summer School, Aix-en-Provence, 9-12 October 2023.
  • Co-organiser of the study days Doctoriales 2021"with Elise Levêque, Jessy Bailly, Eleni Demetriou, Anna Goubert, Alice Baudy, Mésopolhis Summer School, Aix-en-Provence, 22-24 September 2021.

Communications

  • "Quand les gouvernés soutiennent les gouvernants en chute: étude des stratégies d'investissement des populations dans le soin des soldats durant les défaites napoléoniennes (1813-1814)", as part of ST04 of the 2024 Congress of the Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP), organised by Lorenzo Barrault-Stella and Florent Pouponneau, Exploring political domination without belief in the legitimacy of rulers, Science Po Grenoble, July 2024. with Pauline Cherbonnier, Théo Borel, Victor Natalizio, Panel discussion: "Training for war. Transmission and circulation of military experience", Les journées du Mesopolhis, 19 June 2024.
  • " Entre médecine et guerre : Les apports des archives militaires à l'histoire de la santé au prisme de la médicalisation des soldats napoléoniens." Colloque 313 du congrès de l'ACFAS: "Les nouvelles sources de l'histoire de la santé" at the University of Ottawa, 15 May 2024.
  • "Usages et circulation des sciences médico-légales appliquées aux contextes de contre-insurrection au début du XIXe siècle". international colloquium "Thinking, defining, classifying revolts: the production and circulation of knowledge about suppressed revolts in the 19th century".3 May in Aix-en-Provence.
  • "Pratiques et usages d'archives sur l'internnement des militaires aliénés dans la Maison de Santé de Charenton sous la Révolution et le Premier Empire", study day Defining medicine outside serial archives: the possibilities and limits of thematic archive classificationThis is one of a series of study days entitled Pratiques et Usages des Archives Médicales (PUAM) (Practices and Uses of Medical Archives), Archives Départementales du Val-de-Marne, February 2024. 
  • "L'anticipation des pertes dans la formation des officiers de santé à l'école de Médecine Navale de Rochefort (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)", International Conference Military losses and naval warfare - Anticipating naval losses: innovations and forecastsSciencesPo Aix-en-Provence, 30 November-1 December 2023. 
  • "Les interactions entre acteurs du soin en contexte de guérilla : L'organisation d'un réseau de santé militaire lors de l'occupation napoléonienne de l'Espagne (1808-1813)", Study Day. Actrices et acteurs du soin en guerreParis Nanterre University, 13 October 2023. 
  • "L'hôpital militaire et la guérilla : lieu de reconfigurations des rapports de résistances et collaboration", Mesopolhis Summer School 2023, Aix-en-Provence, 12 October 2023.
  • "Life and death in a military context. Methodological approaches to understanding the trajectories of combatants". Round table discussion led by Théo Borel and Pauline Cherbonnier as part of the Second edition of the Historical Sciences Round Tables organised by doctoral students from the laboratories, Teleme Mésopolhis. 15 May 2023
  • "Prendre les invalides pour témoins : l'instrumentalisation du sort des militaires en Espagne dans le procès du système politique napoléonien", International colloquium Power on Trial: Public Opinion and Political Legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era and its Modern Implications, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 14-15 April 2023.
  • "Documenting individual experience in an instrumentalised context: reflexive issues et méthodologiques", with Julie Rateau, Mesopolhis-Telemme inter-laboratory round table, 27 April 2022.
  • "Au croisement de la guerre et de la médecine: production et diffusion des savoirs sur la médecine d'urgence sous le Premier Empire", International conference Knowledge and conflict (16th-19th centuries)Centre Alexandre Koiré EHESS/TEMOS, Campus Condorcet, Centre des colloques Aubervilliers, France, 22-23 October 2021. 
  • "On the value of combining cultural anthropology and funerary anthropology in historical research" 5e Doctoral School 355 Scientific Day, "Talk to me about your thesis", Maison Méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Aix-en-Provence, 17 June 2021.
  • "Containing the Hospitals fever: the spread of epidemics in small pyrenean villages during the Peninsular War (1807-1814)", International Colloquium Small Cities and Health from the Middle Ages to Contemporary TimesCentre for Overseas History (CHAM), the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), [NOVA FCSH] and Municipality of Castelo de Vide, 6 - 8 May 2021.
  • "Culture de guerre des guérilleros espagnols et expérience combattante dans la péninsule ibérique (1808-1814)", La notion de "culture" et l'étude du fait guerrier, Journée d'étude des Jeunes chercheurs de l'IRSEM, Institut de la Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire, Paris, 1 and 2 October 2020.
  • "Élaboration d'une problématique de recherche", presentation at the Anthropologie des conflits armés seminar, Master II Géostratégie défense Sécurité internationale, IEP Aix-en-Provence, 25 September 2020.
  • "Dialogues et échanges d'occupants à occupés entre Méditerranéens: le cas de l'occupation française durant la guerre d'Espagne (1808-1814)", Méditerranée, une mer, des terres? 4th Scientific Day of Doctoral School 355, Maison Méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Aix-en-Provence, 18 June 2019.
  • "The impact of Spanish guerrilla warfare on Napoleonic troop movements in Spain (1808-1814)", Anchoring circulations, for an approach through actors, spaces and power relations, CHERPA Summer School 2019, 26-28. June 2019.

Scientific development

List of publications on HAL

Article in a magazine

Thomas Ramonda. Masculinities honoured or broken. L'expertise médicale des blessures de guerre comme révélateur des luttes entre masculinités au cours de l'Empire napoléonien. Histoire, médecine et santé, 2024, 25, pp.101-119. ⟨10.4000/1217g⟩. ⟨hal-04667949⟩

Thomas Ramonda. Military medical evacuations as a general public health issue: a study of typhus epidemics in South-West France under the First Empire (1808-1814). Revue Historique des Armées, 2021, n° 303 (2), pp.38-50. ⟨10.3917/rha.303.0038⟩. ⟨hal-04109079⟩

Conference poster

Thomas Ramonda. Care in times of guerrilla warfare Caring for Napoleonic soldiers during the Spanish War (1808-1814). 4th study day of Doctoral School 355, Jun 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-02977864⟩